TAD - God's Balls [FULL ALBUM STREAM]

TAD's classic album God's Balls available now as a Deluxe Edition reissue on Sub Pop Mega Mart (reissue release date Nov 4, 2016)
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All tracks remastered on the deluxe editions of God’s Balls
1. Behemoth
2. Pork Chop
3. Helot
4. Tuna Car
5. Sex God Missy
6. Cyanide Bath
7. Boiler Room
8. Satan's Chainsaw
9. Hollow Man
10. Nipple Belt
11. Ritual Device
12. Daisy
13. Tuna Car
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[@Wildrover82]

imagine being at the Tad and Nirvana concerts in 1989. epic hardness. heavier than heaven...

[@stevennorfolk4466]

Was at Lame Fest 89 when mudhoney nirvana and tad played and at many combinations thereof and therwith and permutations throughout me youth. We was on some weird beautiful defiant literate spaceship

[@olivermcguinness6543]

on god?

[@moronsmorons8913]

I was there. Ecstasy in Berlin Schöneberg, paid 12 Deutsche Mark, if remember correctly. I went there for Tad, not Nirvana. Also bought the announcement poster at my record store and still have it somewhere in the cellar.

[@tbaernthaler]

I was there. Circus Gammelsdorf, Germany. 1989. Nirvana opened for Tad. We all went for Tad. And then danced to Love Buzz. Glorious days.

[@Wildrover82]

@@tbaernthaler damn that must have been great. I wish I was there. Although I would have been 7 at the time. I hope your hearings ok after that. Lol.

[@MiCKEYTheKiDxlYLPlx]

00:03 Behemoth 04:09 Pork Chop 08:31 Helot 11:28 Tuna Car 14:03 Sex God Missy 18:31 Cyanide Bath 22:08 Boiler Room 26:59 Satan's Chainsaw 30:10 Hollow Man 34:15 Nipple Belt 37:30 Ritual Device 40:26 Daisy 43:25 Tuna Car

[@halfexcat1822]

Thank you

[@ThMindFdr]

It's never too late to offer an extra like for effort..

[@StonedMeadowOfDoom]

This album definitely deserved the remaster. It sounds fucking fantastic with a much fuller sound now. Boiler Room is still one of the finest and grimiest Tad ever made. Very underappreciated band.

[@Mark-qm6db]

I was just on your channel and noticed the new TAD remaster, now i'm here, lol

[@mistamuthafuka]

Lots of albums were reissued or repressed this year, SubPop did a great job of giving these 3 TAD releases the treatment they deserved. SubPop succeeds where Thrid Man failed repressing those Melvins records.

[@krewgarr]

Amen. So glad it got remastered.

[@deanbritnell6557]

Stoned Meadow Of Doom you are good man. What you do I think your a bit of a hero. Thanks Brother

[@dannyspencer1167]

for me tad was up there with the likes of Soundgarden, nirvana and Alice in chains. really they sum up the whole grunge scene more so

[@eoinrogan8478]

I've been listening to this album for nearly 30 years now and it hasn't aged a day.

[@comicndn5169]

A very heavy and underrated band.

[@thomgwarrior]

Kurt Danielson's bass tone is crushing

[@sullyholmes9379]

This is the only album that I never get tired of listening to, I one time listened to it all 5 times in one day and still wanted to hear it again the next day. Not many bands have the musical brilliance nor heaviness that TAD has.

[@discharge29]

I listen to this everyday - just in case i die tomorrow

[@Wildrover82]

im with ya pal.

[@satanicpanic1313]

☺

[@paolozamma8853]

😅 Don't be silly 🤟

[@paolozamma8853]

Saw Tad with Mudhoney and Nirvana, back in 89, at the Astoria, London, Lame Fest Uk. Poor Tad, driven by enthusiasm destroyed his vintage Fender jaguar, after the gig I could see him back stage hands on his face, shaking his head in despair while the roadie guitarman was consoling him. . Tad was for me the best band from Seattle after Mudhoney.

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

u will fall down beeheemoth /:-0

[@matthewhall8790]

I think I tend to agree, maybe a toss up between Alice in Chains and Tad, but Mudhoney is definitely #1.

[@racoonman36]

Damn, that's sad :(

[@Detourist]

This was a beautiful, little detail of grunge history in its prime! Thank you! It reminds me of the many sweet windows into that time which are presented in the "Nirvana biography", Heavier than Heaven!

[@satanicpanic1313]

You can clearly hear the Impact Tad had on Nirvana and Kurt's writing style! Another diamond from the land of lumber!

[@petarkil]

kurt did listen to tad, but he didn't listen to them that much for them to have a lot of impact on his music if u wonder what his influences are, here are some: mudhoney beatles soundgarden black sabbath ac/dc sonic youth pixies melvins scratch acid aerosmith led zeppelin gang four alice in chains creedence clearwater revival and so on.. anyway, you're not completely wrong, but having listened to nirvana's music for 2+ years, i cant really see that much influence tad had on nirvana

[@_leyrd_.]

Not just Nirvana either, i can hear Soundgarden in there also.

[@Guthix198]

Wipers too but Black flag started it all when kurt and king buzzo went to a concert together kurt then found his love for punk rock

[@jimdavison5136]

Nirvana toured with Tad trust me when you tour with a band you hear their songs over and over and learn from watching. Tad definitely had a big effect on Kurt

[@lordrathut]

​@@petarkil replace Alice In Chains with Black Fkag

[@tadsiskiyou4213]

I wore out the grooves in this record in my college dorm with this masterpiece. Scared the shit out of all my friends. I live now as a recluse, feared by my peers and neighbors. Would I do it again? Hell yes. The fury of Tad @16:00 Always remember, "Jesus drank corn squeezins."

[@Wildrover82]

funniest comment ive come across on youtube. i'm with ya all the way bro. love this shit.

[@SinewRending]

"God's balls, that feels good!"

[@MARVINTRIPP]

No way thats the sound every band should want to have

[@danilds]

The best balls ever!

[@oozeman23]

Tad might be Seattle´s most underrated band ... Everything they´ve done is fucking brilliant ... not too many seem to notice ... the remasters are a blessing .. it truly feels like the music finally got the sound it deserves ...

[@vinyldiary6664]

most underrated band is Screaming Trees, but Tad too, 2 killer bands!

[@blackguitarrecords]

check out the new Willard CD! store.cdbaby.com/cd/willard3

[@hogmolly1758]

Tad was equally talented as Kurt Cobain in my opinion

[@vinyldiary6664]

​@@hogmolly1758 I agree...but Cobain has image beyond the talent you know. He looks like a model, the same with Vedder, Cornell, Staley... Tad you know is fat and ugly as fuck, besides being an extremely good person, but that doesn't sell records. But Tad is huge on the underground scene....practically influenced any decent band worth listening to. But I never understand why Screaming Trees never reached the mainstream... I mean Lanegan has the swagg, the band has everything ... music, videos to achieve huge success, they are better than U2, but they were always underground and never enjoyed great success.

[@tomread8748]

@@vinyldiary6664 I love Nirvana, but I find that their songs have somehow become so prevalent that they are kind of mainstream pop now, in a way (not in a bad way, just there, in our culture). With Tad, they still have the grit, grime and scratchy primal anger that my soul craves from edgy alternative music. It's about all I can listen to and truly, viscerally enjoy these days. Thank fuck for Tad!

[@doomzillah]

I first heard of Tad around 1998 when I found a promo copy of Infrared Riding Hood in a used shop. I've been hooked ever since.

[@andrewbarrett4276]

That album rules!

[@zzzaaayyynnn]

Masterful work by an essential early grunge band, wish more people knew of them...

[@Nick-fi1mc]

Tad, screaming trees, mudhoney, skin yard....the relatively unknown OTHER great grunge bands

[@GarrettParrot]

They were a better band than Alice In Chains imho

[@Nick-fi1mc]

@@GarrettParrot it's close, but you may be right.....also a band called paw.... check them out too

[@GarrettParrot]

Nick Odemis yeah Paw rings a bell I think I’ve heard them before

[@zzzaaayyynnn]

@@GarrettParrot Alice in Chains wrote some really good songs and were fine musicians, but Tad was the "real thing" when it comes to grunge. Not as "metal crossover" as AIC.

[@GraveSource]

Can’t praise this album enough. Every song is incredible. Fuckin love me some TAD.

[@SANITIZEDINC]

Man, this and SALT LICK. Like an unstoppable force. Saw em at the Whiskey in early 90s. Dope. So dope.

[@nickzammerilla9088]

I'm pretty sure that this album would have killed my parents on the spot had they ever heard it. I could never get it loud enough. . .until i saw them live in 1988-89. Bass player spun his hair in a huge circle for the entire show. I get a headache just picturing it in my mind.

[@Wildrover82]

i envy you dude. i fucking love tad.

[@neets1437]

When bands were great!

[@beerthousand]

That's sick! Sound so much heavier to me than the original

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

GAS IN THE TANK, N FISH N THEE FRIDGE [:-0

[@punkccorpse]

TAD north american tour 2k17, it would be so fucking sick.

[@borisscatterbrayne6502]

Ikr Shut Up and take my money

[@KSandy-iy6fg]

Still killer album

[@ItachiUchiha-ry2ju]

TAD and The melvins are the heaviest out of washington state. Soundgarden pearl jam and Aic are my favourites tho

[@alandesignvox8155]

O Brasil ama TAD, Nirvana e Sub Pop! Gratidão!!!!!

[@richfeddersen5173]

Love TAD. This remaster bloody great. Saw them with Nirvana in '89 in England, blew Nirvana away.

[@vinyldiary6664]

@Von_Nightmare_ Luciferian You don't know what you're talking about ... sad.

[@arrad77]

"blew Nirvana away" With what? Farts?

[@richfeddersen5173]

richard denny Fucking hilarious Oscar Wilde. Trust you saw neither band.

[@richfeddersen5173]

Vinyl Diary666 Why? Were you there? I think Nirvana were great, but Tad were better on the night.

[@richfeddersen5173]

@Jerzy Dziś Well said!

[@vitaliymatishak705]

Great remaster of the great album

[@blackguitarrecords]

Love this record!

[@iwishiwasananteater.3205]

This could be out today and it would play the sort of festivals I go to.

[@djdiderguibalmoore1698]

The roots of fight alone brains needed more than normal

[@vangoghsear8657]

Such a solid, underrated album.

[@racoonman36]

Love the name bro

[@vangoghsear8657]

@@racoonman36 Thanks man :)

[@redshaftedflicker]

Tad's awesome, same with Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth.

[@Noblesavage77]

Solid 🪨🤘🔥

[@halfnhalfwithsage3416]

This is badass! Love this record!

[@slowmutant8]

Fucking awesome

[@birchmahogany2718]

Tad rules

[@jessieselamat3796]

this is a good loudness album

[@vinyldiary6664]

Such a badass band!

[@curly_wyn]

The greatest album title of all time.

[@SuperCrazyPsycho731]

That one band that was just as good if not better than Nirvana and Soundgarden but never made it there because they didn't have the look MTV and corporate magazines want. So no it's not Mudhoney or the Melvina it's Tad. Tad is rad.

[@thesecondYouTube]

Behemoth - No. 27 on 100 Greatest Grunge/Washington State Tracks.

[@OGGOAT23]

Amazing

[@t_crt]

Woaw, the first version of Tuna Car sounds very different ...

[@questionauthority9418]

I saw both in a place that was like a huge living room. Rey Washam from Scratch Acid played drums for Tad. The fucking killed it!

[@barrywhitesavedmylife7957]

An absolutely fantastic band. This and 8-Way Santa are my favourites. I never really got Nirvana if I'm honest, always preferred the more 'Metallic' end of Grunge.

[@matthewhall8790]

Melvins!

[@EzidioAlvesPereira]

Excelente disco,tempo bom!

[@santiagocarrero4002]

UNDERATED.

[@jeffnighswander170]

I never gave this band a chance as a kid because they just never sounded "cool" enough for me. I was an idiot as a kid and was super snobby about what was punk or not. As an adult I've gone back and listened to a lot of bands I skipped over as a kid because they didn't fit the mold for me. This is one of those bands that just floors me at how fucking good they were. There are the beginnings of a lot of other great bands like Rye Coalition, White Zombie, Marylin Manson, and the new stoner doom metal movement. There's also elements of what would become the sound for most grunge bands. Truly they were ahead of their time. I'm super pissed at myself for missing out on them for all this time.

[@sergiog6260]

i feel exactly the same. at least i m still here in time to listen and get inspired by this viceral music

[@FGreenwood7]

Que viagem... Quanto tempo não ouvia...

[@Wandering4dayz]

God’s Balls ❤>>>

[@SaintMartins]

*Seattle: Will we ever get a music scene like this again ?* Pearl Jam Nirvana Temple Of The Dog Metal Church Alice In Chains Mudhoney Mad Season Queensryche Soundgarden Tad Mother Love Bone Heart Screaming Trees The Accused Green River Jimi Hendrix The Fastbacks Bikini Kill 7 Year Bitch Forced Entry Foo Fighters (The) Melvins

[@paolochilardi8672]

the best heavy grunge heard 🍻🤘🤘🤘

[@jessieselamat3796]

NOT that word its TAD

[@thesecondYouTube]

Satan's Chainsaw- No.66 on 100 Greatest Grunge/Washington State Tracks.

[@problyzuited9828]

LETS GOOO

[@0421072]

Now I get why my favorite Ministry albums are Filth Pig and Dark Side of the Spoon.

[@marianmamei6527]

Yeah!

[@ThurstonDrunk]

JESUS DRANK CORN SQUEEZINS!

[@ThurstonDrunk]

And had sideburns.

[@ThurstonDrunk]

GOD"S!

[@ThurstonDrunk]

BALLS!

[@juniorgabriell2524]

im tad and your not then they fucking blew my mind seen em about 100 years ago there was like 30 people there it was epic

[@alejandroperalta9784]

Que bueno álbum, tengo el disco, me gusta esta banda de sludge metal

[@paolodemarco6479]

siamo alla frutta amigo!!

[@jonhennessey9017]

love this album. im pretty sure tool used some riffs from this. they made it their own but there is similarities

[@vinyldiary6664]

For sure...I can hear it too. What Tool did was take the riffs on a more atmospheric and progressive wave.

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

One of songs sounds like intro 2 rage against the machines killing in name of, an intense stop start intro, maybe commonly used by many bands or borrowed from tad ,:-0

[@ensosilva8304]

Very Hard!

[@emcmw]

TAD, Unsane, The Jesus Lizard, Helmet, Every Time I Die, Bad Brains, Jakprogresso, Fu Manchu, Tricky, Primus, Queens Of The Stone Age, Tom Waits, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Down, Frank Sinatra, Faith No More, Soundgarden, Stinking Lizaveta, Johnny Cash, Clutch, Fugazi, The Reverend Horton Heat, Compton’s Most Wanted, Suicidal Tendencies, God Lives Underwater, NIN, and Slayer; I just put on a playlist. Do I got it covered for a while?

[@bertruss]

Are you married?

[@emcmw]

Sloan Wall I am happily married with three kids but I always have my personal time for music.

[@bertruss]

7ToRnAdOeS you missed the joke. I was proposing... :)

[@bertruss]

7ToRnAdOeS thanks for posting. This was an essential part of my youth

[@Zoevandyne]

Frank Sinatra not so much but otherwise good stuff man.

[@punkandalternativemusicarchive]

Cyanide Bath is pure Sabbath worship

[@stolikat]

Fuck I love TAD. I need to order some new shirts.

[@mattpurvis927]

I like this. Sounds a bit like Nirvana's "Bleach" album...or vice versa. Good stuff.

[@mudsh4rk]

Cobain was TAD's roadie.

[@vinyldiary6664]

Cobain was rodie of the Melvins... Nirvana was on tour with TAD in 89-90, different. Eventually both bands would end up being rodie of each other, they tour over the country and Europe.

[@Jpu_nk]

Just dudes playing in a band.

[@punkandalternativemusicarchive]

God's Balls came out a few months before

[@kellyneese5216]

TAD !

[@freakshow1361]

I am here because Ola Englund mentioned it.

[@chucklopresti7262]

Sounds exactly like Steel Pole Bathtub in parts....not a bad thing.

[@indegruv]

Fuck Yeah

[@idahodayhiker6164]

my friends band The Full Monte were their neighbors and friends

[@leopold9581]

this is rock's apex

[@emcmw]

PorkChopisamazing,listentoitreallyloud

[@spacewurm]

Damn. I spent $50 + S/H on original CD version a few yrs ago. I should have waited.

[@emell7025]

quid? skint? fuck me m8

[@campzzyzx9792]

Witnessed the Fury @ RAJI's

[@popeyedoyle6360]

vocals remind me of killdozer

[@paulosicne8498]

A lot of these songs appear on Inhaler.

[@SBrown-ti8xe]

Dare I call this sludge?

[@ironsleet73]

Definitely an influence.

[@Jpu_nk]

Call it what you want.

[@marSLaZZ66]

"Sex God Missy"!! Creepy Apocalyptic!!

[@kruemelmaennchen]

Tuna car beats the shit out of me

[@Wildrover82]

the demented insanity of it is the pinnacle of awesomeness. badass.

[@stevennorfolk4466]

Ise said it fore an gawdamn Ise goan say it gain an a thousand time TAD hurling holy salvoes and mysteries of beer rings and I just gonna take a piss by this still of ancient mist and we go and find Jack Pepsi

[@stratonut]

and the world wound up with pearly jamm.. what a shame

[@WyldeRatttz]

I can hear where Marilyn Manson stole his sound...

[@Flatnoy69]

This Steve Albani recording sounds just like Nirvana's In Utero. Kurt Loved Tad and it shows... kind of ripped him off in a way. Thoughts?

[@mrfingers7409]

Troy Davis this has a real Seattle sound I think sometimes musicians rub off on each other. The whole album reminds me of Jesus Lizard.

[@Flatnoy69]

That is a great analogy. I can also say I hear a lot of elements of Shellac since you mentioned the Lizard. But your right, there was a lot of crossbreeding between bands.

[@vinyldiary6664]

I do not understand, this album is a production of Jack Endino, the same one that produced the Bleach, both in the same period ... these albums yes, they are similar! In Utero does not sound nothing like this ...

[@sleepyblindlouis7772]

I always thought Daisy sounded a bit like Scentless Apprentice

[@Flatnoy69]

@@sleepyblindlouis7772 I agree with you. Good ear!

[@jeffersonaraujoelcristiano]

Why the blasphemous title?

[@alexperry4691]

Cos they are heavier than God's balls!

[@jeffersonaraujoelcristiano]

@@alexperry4691 , that's not funny at all. Indeed, it's realy blasphemous and being realistic, impossible. Nothin' can be heavier than God.

[@danmeehan5801]

Just found about these guys two days ago. Although the music has some good aggression and you can hear the influence on the Nirvanas of the world, right away you can tell why they never made it big. The singing is horrible. Ultimately people want to hear a nice melodic voice. Only jam bands can get away with bad singing because they are all about the long funky jams.

[@AJays734]

This sounds terrible and i love grunge. The singing sucks paired with the alright riffs but nothing pops or is memorable.

[@MrK-wu7ci]

1. Then enjoy the riffs. Get drunker and higher and listen again. TAD started out as a drummer, so he really appreciated the heavy interaction between the drums and bass. Kurt Danielson - the best bass player on the scene. 2. TAD is a unique vocalist. Can't weigh 450 pounds and not have an inimitable vocal style. 3. Nirvana and especially Kurt Cobain were huge TAD fans. They even supported them on their European tour. There is a video of them in Italy when TAD mis-timed his high, and Kurt finished the set for him. (KZbin) Nirvana & Tad - LIVE at Bloom, Italy (FULL Concert,1989)

[@ssn0651]

Not good